Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-29
Page range: 379–411
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Studies in Guatemalan Caelifera: New grasshoppers and monkey grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera: Acridoidea & Eumastacoidea) and an updated checklist

Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos “Kumangui”. Bogotá-Colombia.
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
Eumastacoidea Tetrigoidea Pyrgomorphoidae Acridioidea Tridactyloidea Paralethus Episactus Parepisactus Pararhicnoderma Leioscapheus Thela

Abstract

We describe six species of Acridomorpha, Orthoptera from Guatemala: Paralethus rowelli n. sp., Paralethus cerezoi n. sp., Episactus schusteri n. sp. (Episactidae: Episactinae), Pararhicnoderma eniocanoi n. sp. (Romaleidae: Bactrophorinae), Tela neumanni n. sp. and Leioscapheus faustinoi n. sp. (Acrididae: Proctolabinae). four genera and five species are recorded for Guatemala and, at the same time a checklist is provided for Caelifera species found so far in the country.